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I'll just state this directly...

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I won't use the word Luddite. I'll just say that Classical music fans such as yourself are the reason the art form is dying. Take whatever satisfaction you will from that. By no means was I advocating a complete and literal end to performances of the existing body of Classical compositions. My point is a balance needs to be struck, and a deliberate effort at sponsoring and performing new works needs to be established...at least if the music is going to survive.

Regarding recordings, are you still buying new recordings of standard works? Based on the 1958 reference, I'm assuming you're at least in your 49 (years since then) plus, what 12 (age)...60 years old at least. I agree with you regarding newer recordings and engineering. However, I'm somewhat younger than you and I've got EVERYTHING I enjoy in crisp new recordings...PLUS gobs of the historic stuff: I am TOTALLY saturated. Knowing that you can't possibly have enough time to "listen to it all", I'm assuming that you've ABANDONED many of your older recordings in favor of newer ones (i.e., you just don't -- and will never, as a matter of hours in the day -- listen to them again). Here's the closer. Someone that goes out right now and buys an SACD of, say, Vanska conducting the Beethoven 9th (or whatever) has in there hands a sound recording that is about as good as human ears need. It's your call, but life's too short to continue to throw money after the same work over and over again.

On a different note, new music is about new experience. When I stop seeking new intellectual experience (and the tweaking of the texture or pace of a piece I've got 20 recordings of is hardly what I'm speaking of), I'll declare myself as no longer being interested in the very reason I enjoy this hobby. You are effectively doing that for yourself. Or, at least, you are content with what you have. That's fine, but I truly believe that extending that contentment outward into the realm of Classical music as a reason for it NOT TO GROW is just not right.

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